| Taxonomic significance of the ostracode species Carbonita altilis from the Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation, Atlantic Canada. |
| This unit contains oncoids, echinoderm ossicles, bivalve fragments, tuberoids containing renalcid species A, ostracode valves, intraclasts, Parafavreina, and quartz silt. |
| The 5 mm ostracode, whose descendants still live in the sea, was buried under volcanic ash 425 million years ago. |
| A Lower Pennsylvanian silicified ostracode fauna occurs just above the conformable Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary within the Barnett Formation in Texas. |
| Velatomorpha, a new healdioidean ostracode genus from the early Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation, Nova Scotia, Canada. |
| The ontogeny and dimorphic features of many early Middle Ordovician ostracode species are still poorly known. |
